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WCOOP 2011 – Day 10 Report
Posted by: James Carter. - Thu, 2011-09-15 08:35
The 10th day of the 2011 WCOOP saw plenty of action: no fewer than 3 WCOOP bracelets have found their rightful and not to mention deserving owners. ‘Name’ players were once again present in great numbers, and of the 3 winners, 2 were such high profile competitors: Noah Boeken was one of them and Mike Leah the other.
PokerStars’ Noah Boeken, who had made the final table in the $2.5k Mixed Holdem event during the last
WSOP, won the $320 Mixed Holdem event. Leah won the $300 Badugi one.
The event that Boeken won featured a $320 buy-in and it attracted 841 players, creating a prize-pool of $252,300. The win was worth $44,480 and it made Boeken the second PokerStars pro to win a WCOOP 2011 bracelet (the first one being Anders Berg).
Boeken held the chip lead when the final table was reached, but the battle for the win would not be an easy one for him: two more similar-caliber players had made the final dash: Shaun Deeb and Steve Gross. Despite the illustrious opposition, Boeken never let go of the reins of the final table action. He was the one who drew first blood at the final table, by knocking out ‘Goldenboys’ in 6th place. A huge obstacle was cleared from Boeken’s path to victory when Fulham8 disposed of Shaun Deeb in 5th place.
Boeken then swung into action again and took the largest pot of the event off Steve Gross, when his flopped set of deuces got the better of Gross’ flopped two pair.
3-handed action wasn’t kind to ‘Fulham8’. He couldn’t get anything going, and eventually – his stack dwindling – he got the last of his chips into the middle and he was eliminated in 3rd place.
The heads-up action between Boeken and ‘gangst3rn1’ lasted for 49 hands. The final hand of the tournament saw Boeken’s K,5o triumph against his opponent’s K,10o on account of a pair of 5s he had flopped.
